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UK Gay Community Falls In Love With Football
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UK Gay Community Falls In Love With Football
So say the Guardian. People in ‘liking popular things’ shocker.[…]

The London That Never Was – Part 1 in an irregular series
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Perhaps I was a little harsh on the quality of some of London’s riverside architecture. Especially when you consider that once upon a time the good people of Battersea could have been given this[…]

Metropolimbo
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Metropolimbo
Perhaps the biggest disadvantage with growing up in a surburban satellite such as the towns within the Zone 5/6 boundary is that while you feel comfort in being able to experience both urban thrills and rural bliss quicker than most, you[…]

Elders Of The Universe
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Elders Of The Universe: It gives me great pleasure to pronounce K-Punk bang on the money in this post about the fabulous language of Marvel:
“Part of the reason why I love Marvel so much is that it inculcated a feeling for language in me at a y[…]

Virginia Woolf’s ‘Lost London Essay’
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Virginia Woolf’s ‘Lost London Essay’: linked more out of duty to the readership than admiration.[…]

Practical Criticism II
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Practical Criticism II: There were two serious questions/points lurking behind yesterday’s (somewhat sarcastic) proposals.
1/ Assuming that the tiny-review model for published music criticism is likely to dominate for at least a while, how best[…]

GIRLS ALOUD – “Love Machine”
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GIRLS ALOUD – “Love Machine”
SKIFFLE IS BACK!!
Yrs, Easily Pleased, Tooting.[…]

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  1. "at one point a character literally dusts him". That part was hilarious!

  2. "Dave Sim sticks the landing." That is my feeling too. As frustrating and borderline unreadable as the last 50 issues…

  3. One thing I think you missed and one thing I have to shamefacedly admit: 1) The Krazy Kat homage, brief…

  4. " ... it’s also an ominous indication of where he’s going as a creator. He’s laying out dialogue so as…

  5. LOL - I'm reading through these, and the "Jaka's Story" one drew my first reaction, and in it I said…